A university team shows that thousands of low-end PCs wrangled together into a loose network can be used effectively on problems scientists encounter in the lab. Department Editor Evan Hansen runs the ...

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Researchers hunt for weaknesses in large node-based systems. U.S. government computer scientists are studying how computer grids react to volatile conditions to understand how events such as virus ...

Ask any programmer who has ever had to deal with timekeeping on a computer, and they’re likely to go on at length about how it can be a surprisingly difficult thing to keep track of. Time zones, leap ...

CPUcoin, a developer of a sharing economy for cloud computing power, today announced the launch of its system for paying people for their idle processor time. The first CPUcoin-earning Compute ...

Ask any programmer who has ever had to deal with timekeeping on a computer, and they’re likely to go on at length about how it can be a surprisingly difficult thing to keep track of. Time zones, leap ...

The mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto is often credited with inventing blockchain – the tech behind the recent cryptocurrency and decentralization boom. But long before Nakamoto published his seminal paper ...

Distributed computing won't evolve to the next level without new architectures for reliability and security, according to David A. Patterson, who has taught computer science at the University of ...

If you've ever gotten a more spacious closet, a larger desk, or even a bigger house, you've probably been surprised at how quickly it fills up and no longer seems quite big enough. Business computers ...

Almost 20 years ago, faculty in the chemistry department of Stanford University launched a distributed computing project called Folding@Home (F@H). They sought to understand how proteins self-organize ...